Introduction to the Right BC Pattern, or right brachial chain.
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- Опубліковано 31 тра 2018
- The right brachial chain, or right BC pattern, is identified by the Postural Restoration Institute as a state of muscular over-activity that tends to hold our torso in a left rotated position.
This Right BC chain of muscles generally needs to be inhibited so that we can establish left AF/IR and a left ZOA.
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For further information about Postural Restoration defined patterns, check out these videos and blog posts.
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• RTMCC Pattern Basics
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I finally found you!!! I knew there was someone out there who can explain my scoliosis in detail! Thank you 🙏
You're welcome. I'm pretty sure I saw another comment about to fix it, but I can't find the comment now. There are a few exercise videos. 90-90 with hip shift. Right sidelying left adductor pull back. Left Sidelying right glute max. Try all of them.
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I think this video is a relief to a lot of people who are struggling. Once that subclavious is free'd up things start to get a bit easier.
Agreed, the subclavius can be a major roadblock for lots of people.
Hi Neal,
I stumbled upon your videos a few months ago after googling "rotated pelvis" and have learned SO MUCH from you about why I have felt so unbalanced and misaligned for the past few years (which is why I was googling "rotated pelvis"). You've helped me identify so many movement patterns I have that felt "wrong" to me, but that I previously couldn't describe or visualize (e.g. the left AIC pattern and what the pelvis is actually doing). Understanding these patterns has really helped me in my efforts to correct them, as have the exercises in your videos. I feel as though I'm moving much more "normally" these days, but I can still feel a lot of the same old bad movement patterns, just to a lesser extent.
Something about your videos that has confused me endlessly is the fact that many of your descriptions perfectly describe what I feel on the same side of my body, and yet a small number of them perfectly describe what I feel (and see) on the other side of my body. For example, my LEFT ribs are compressed and collapsed (and my left shoulder is naturally quite a bit lower than my right). In fact, I often experience a small amount of pain in my left ribs because that area is always tensed, which I think is related to its compression. However, it also feels like my right scapula is pulled forward (consistent with what you described in this video), and I do experience pain around my right shoulder blade, which doesn't feel like it lies flat when I lie on my back.
Have you seen people who "present" like I do (this is all completely outside of my field so I don't know what the proper lingo is)? I ask mostly because I'm curious, but also because I wonder if it matters for the efficacy of the exercises in your videos.
Thanks again for sharing your invaluable wisdom!
-Jean
Did you find out what the problem was?
OMG... I've come across Neal Hallinan's videos having searched "diaphragm extension", based on my own sense of what's been wrong with my body for four decades. What you're saying, Neal, tallies with my experience so closely: my sense of what for years I've called my "collapsed right side", my left ribs sticking out, my belly-button twisted to the right, and pains and stiffness in my left ankle, upper thorax, and horrible loss of flexibility. I've seen chiropractors etc. and often they have straightened me out, but within a week or so always I have reverted to my usual posture. I'm going to continue watching...
Did you get any better
Thankyou for ll the information, Neal. I am currently doing the postural respiration home study course and I use your videos to help nail in some of the details in clearer and plainer terms. Thanks again.
Thank you again Neal.Your videos on PRI are the best.
Absolute gold, watched this video 3 times in the last 3 months. Thank you.
He seems to be saying stand up straight in a very complex way.
Great videos! I now realise what is going on with my body..thank you. I have been so confused for years! Now to get to work on fixing this!
THANK YOU FOR YOUR VIDEOS!!! I have been in need of this information to help heal my scoliosis! I'm so grateful for you!
If you have scoliosis, definitely check my playlist about that topic. A bunch of interviews with scoliosis experts.
No surprise but this is exactly my case. Thanks Neal! You've changed my life.
I'm almost in tears watching this video! I have all the issues you mentioned in the video, including the right shoulder slump and the tight clavicle holding my head to the right. My breathing is terrible, I have shoulder, hip and neck pain for years and no doctor could help me. I finally have hope again to resolve my issues now that I finally know the cause. Unfortunately your online-consultations (understandably) are booked at the moment. Can't wait to getting direct help from you.
Excellent video... Helpful and useful
I would just like to start off by thanking you for posting these videos and your website.
I am a Ewing Sarcoma survivor of just over 2 years now. I had it in my left tibia, resulting in me being in a wheel chair for a few months during chemo,until my surgery to replace my tibia with a prosthetic.
With that being said. Post surgery and chemo i started going to the gym again, and without realizing it, was using only my right half of the body to lift up most of the heavy weight I was lifting. It finally resulted in me having a Left AIC and right BC patter. Before I knew about this, I started having extreme upper right back pain, right chest pain, neck pain, and felt i couldn't breath when sitting down in my upper right chest area. I was convinced i had a tumor in my upper right lung despite numerous xrays showing nothing there. I finally came across your website and videos and started them and it has made the world of difference to me already. Thanks again for these videos!
Ah, so interesting! Thanks for sharing your story! I admire your strength in overcoming your cancer. Yes, the BC pattern compresses your anterior chest wall and can make it hard to breathe and cause overactivity of the neck muscles.
awesome breakdown, so helpful.
Your explanation bewildered me❤🎉
Thank you for breaking this down into basic terminology.
You're welcome.
Sir .this is exactly what's happening to me ..Thank you for all this information . I'll try this exercises ..Thankyou sir..
Thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you 🤗
This is exactly what I was looking for! Thank you! I am a violinist recovering from TOS, and my holding violin posture has caused me to get into that exact position. Violin on the left shoulder - raised, head rotated, right shoulder low, lat and abs tight on the right. I am getting better on my recovery but meanwhile I also realized how breathing is of vital importance. Thank you for highlighting these things!
You're welcome. It's well known in PRI -world that musicians often have really strong right BC and RIght TMCC patterns. Your right cranium, jaw, neck and shoulder essentially become "one".
I am so happy I found all this information. I've been suffering for the last 12mos, my body pulling to the right. I didn't understand what was happening to mw. I suffer from 3 bulging discs L3, L4 & L5, they could be herniated now though, I do need to get a MRI
Thanks for the video. It's very informative and eye-opening.
In addition to 90/90 hip shift and all fours exercises, what would you advise for someone with a very tight pec minor? Would we expect the aforementioned exercises to help alleviate the tight pec minor or would manual massaging and/or stretching be required?
Thank you
The breathing is the key!
Great Intro on RBC. I also had a very tight subclavius which I had to massage the hell out of to get it relax so that the right ribcage could swing in and out of left/right thoracic abduction.
Specifically I need left thoracic abduction as my body seems to favor right Thoracic Abduction.
I think the issue, for me, with maintaining and keeping left thoracic abduction is that the back muscles on the left side are really very tight and not able to contract eccentrically all the way from the left heel and up through the left hip, buttocks, middle (xyphoid process region) and neck, even, all the way up to the head.
The problem is exacerbated as the left ribcage is not being held 'in place' by the left front ligament structures (they get overpowered by the left-back ligament structures). ALso there is a left lower-rib flare that is getting in the way.
I know I need more internal rotation,extension, adduction on the left hip but I also need more 'length' in the left external rotators so that the pelvis doesn't collapse on the left as the abdominals try to work to pull down the ribs.
Any ideas on how to invoke more eccentric activity on the left side?
My initial thought would be that you'd need to try and get left posterior mediastinum expansion. If you stand in front of a wall and put your hands on the wall about shoulder height, and push yourself backwards (hands remaining in place on the wall) you'll feel your ribcage move backwards. That's posterior mediastinum expansion. That's what should happen, ribs move backwards, when we inhale. Due to the anterior left rib flare (externally rotated ribs) the posterior thoracic ribcage gets tight on the left. Without that expansion you'll often struggle with getting left AF/IR, left ZOA, left thoracic abduction, etc... I'd search for some left posterior mediastinum expansion activities.
Thanks Neal. The main trouble is finding my left heal as a reference point which is difficult because of that left rib flare. The other problem is getting a 'handle' on the tendons that connect left and right jaws that you get with something like Standing cervical cranial repositioning.
The problem is you can't get posterior mediastinum expansion without having the left (and right) molar teeth contacts as both.
Is there an easier way to get the head aligned for something like Standing cervical cranial repositioning using 4 corner visual-direction co-ordination with breath?
This would really help to position the arms and legs for when you breath (usually on an exhale) which rotates the pelvis and thorax thus stabilizing the scapular. Scapular stabilization is critical for these exercises from a structural integrity standpoint. This is because the breathing exercises loosen you up quite a lot and then maintaining neutrality throughout the exercises becomes ver more critical
Thanks, appreciated. Any comments out there about the value of passive hanging from an overhead bar in helping Right BC troubles?
So what do I do about this every thing you said applies to me basically (tos lpt can’t expand right side when breathing) it hurts so much everyday for over 2 years
Hello Neal, would you mind briefly explaining the difference between a bilateral bc and a PEC pattern. Thank you
Hi Neal
I finally stumbled upon your fantastic videos. Have been having this problem for a decade since I fell and tore my rotator cuff hundreds of dollars at PT and chiropractors floor exercises, yoga etc. Nothing has changed. My right shoulder is dropped and my left is higher very tight trap, after all the x-rays I have mild levo scoliosis and some degenerative discs which I knew I had. I'm hoping to find a PR person in my area that I can work with. Any other advice? A million thanks!
HI Neal! I love your videos and explanations. Thank you SO much! I do PRI with my PT, I just got my custom orthotics from Dr Coffin a couple of weeks ago and my right side is going CRAZY, mainly my right obliques and right QL. I'm trying to "wean" into the shoes but honestly it feels like every time I put them on, my right obliques just turn into a hard knot. In your experience, is it ever "too early" to wear the orthotics.... I had a lot of compensations going on, after 2 hip surgeries and the first 30 years of undiagnosed hip dysplasia so a lot going on there with my gait even before my surgeries :D
I think I have this because my right ear looks more small and deformed. When this is fixed, would my right ear look like my left?
In my case, my left scalene is tighter than the right scalene. Is that consistent with this?
I have the left leg larger I dont by much but I feel When I do squat I need to advance my right leg. I have all My right hip tense . Righ iliopsoas, right glúte and right quadratus Lumborum. In the neck I have all the front tense but more the left side. Esterneocleido mastoideo and scalens. I have scolisis as well
Sir, After releasing my subclavius , is it necessary to release my pec minor too? Cos I'm feeling pinching pain in pec minor area and also swelling .
I'm confused, I have left AIC pattern, left pronated foot but I Have scapular dyskinesis and thoracic outlet syndrom on the left! Midback area is very painful
u just described my problem but i have it on the other side unfortunatly i have SMA type3 with it
Hi Neal, my subclavius on the right is very tight and my so is my pec minor on the right, how do I loosen both?
Hello, so you are saying those of us who have scoliosis, even a mild one, are screwed since it cannot be fixed?
I need your help doc im in NJ and I have left you a voicemail I have a referral and I have been to multiple doctors my pcp and chiropractor dont know what you do and i have been to physical therapy as well and nothing works
I found your video on how to release the R sub-clavius. What do I do if massaging that causes me to go into R pattern more?
I don't see why that would happen. The right subclavius prevents you from getting out of the right sided pattern.
Where do I sign up to take classes in this? How do I learn this? I'm a massage therapist and I feel like nothing I'm doing is actually helping people. All they want me to do is push where it hurts and I know that that isn't the problem because I've been doing that and the problem is still there!
Also, can something like this happen on the left? Or will it only happen on the right?
What does it mean when my ribcage is oriented to the right side? Does it mean that it has nothing to do with my pelvis, because I have an rtmcc pattern.
Is it possible to have tension and discomfort in the liver area and the entire right side up to the mastoid? Intestine appendix area on the right
Dryness, stiffness, toxins
Its so bad for me my whole right side rib cage looks like its a different upper body then my left. I quit going to the gym because I felt like I was maiking it wors the weight just hits my left different then my left.
I've watched all of your videos that deal with this particular topic. I also understand the logic. But the descriptions are never right for me. As far as the pelvis is concerned, I seem to have a left BC pattern, but the symptoms are still those of a right BC pattern. Some other symptoms are those of a left pattern. I don't understand that. I'll take another look at all the videos. But maybe you have an explanation. Thank you!
Could this LAIC RBC pattern be the reason as to why I can't contract my right musculature as well as my left? This has been a big issue for me when exercising or just simply contracting a chosen muscle. This applies to the lower body too and I am right side dominant by the way
The patterning can be involved in lots of issues. So, it's possible.
Could this be why my abs are more defined on the left side?
Think I have some left rib flare as well…
Is it possible to have a Left AIC and LEFT BC pattern?
How long would it take to get out of the left aic right bc pattern if everything is done correctly?
Getting out of a pattern isn't difficult. Re-stabilizing your body through building neuromuscular strength is the difficulty.
do you have any left bc exercises you recommend doing to get out of the right bc pattern?
Every Postural Restoration Institute technique is a left BC technique, just like every technique is a right AIC technique. The only way to get out of the left AIC right BC pattern (right stance phase of gait) is to put your body into a right AIC left BC pattern (left stance phase of gait)
Wow!! I finally found something that shows my exact problem!! Now, how to fix it?
Sam, this entire channel is about these patterns and how to fix them (theoretically, at least). However, you'll need help from a PRI credentialed provider.
@@NealHallinan Unfortunately the closest one is about 100 miles away. How many visits does it typically require?
@@samherb1 Mine is 3,000 miles. Cheers
Ver my very interesting! Thank u! At 5:00 min you talk about right muscle of the Neck and says that they are thighs. It is possible that a persona with Left AIC pattern have similar problem at the LEFT side of the neck becouse the neck
Incline to the left to compensate the left shoulder high and right shoulder down? Thank u from Spain.
The left side of the neck can have pain/difficulties because of the "pull" from the right side.
8:25 Is it common practice in PRI to massage the subclavius or other things? Or did you come up with this on your own? How many times did you have to massage it for it to stick?
A restricted subclavius is relatively common due to accessory muscle breathing once the left diaphragm is lost. Just once, but then you need to follow it up with techniques that re-arrange the now "freed-up" ribs so that they all align correctly.
@@NealHallinan Thanks
So what do you do for it?
Hello maybe my question sounds stupid but im new to this and im confused. If you are in the Right BC pattern you are in left AIC? Thanks
Usually, yes.
But you can get someone neutral in their pelvis, but they may still be in the right BC.
In other words, you can turn "off" the left AIC but the right BC can remain.
So is it normal for the right ribcage to stick out more? With the left AIC and Right bc pattern. Sorry im confused
It can, yes. It just depends on how your body is compensating for the underlying pattern.
How does a person presenting with the left aic pattern fair with a mckenzie test or lateral shift ?
I'm not familiar with a Mckenzie test.
Great video! Question I have multiple tools to try and release my pec minor and subclavious and find myself manually releasing them with my thumb daily due to discomfort. What would you recommend for someone that can’t seem to get them to permanently release?
Well, if it's a tight right subclavius, you'll need help from a PRI therapist, because you need to re-arrange your rib alignment after manually releasing the subclavius. Insanely complicated.
@@NealHallinan do you know of anyone that could help near the Milwaukee area? Where do I go about finding one. Simple google searches don’t seem to do the trick
I'm really fascinated by your videos but I'm struggling to understand your explanation of left-right shift (even though you state it's basically a human universal).
Here's my situation: RIGHT SIDE: tight-QL/compressed ribs, raised hip, internally rotated and abbudcted femur, tight pec, internally rotated shoulder, tight neck/raised shoulder. LEFT SIDE: externally rotated femur, slight piriformis syndrome (compressed nerve felling in foot). My weight is always shifted to the left but I can barely stand on my left leg anymore. My hips are always rolled to the left when I sit and I'm basically doing crunches on my right side (really annoying). Does this mean I need to pull back on the hip with the left or right hamstring? I had a PT tell me something similar some years ago (followed with lots of pointless stretching) but I never got results, maybe because I was doing it wrong or not on the correct side. Anyways it sounds like you absolutely nailed it. I'll go to see a PRI person if I can find a way to get to NC from SC (new job here).
It's always the left hamstring (there is a recent video on why you don't use the right hamstring). There is often a strong upper body component to all this, so it's not always a straight forward pelvis issue.
@@NealHallinan hmmm that's very interesting because an old PT had me do right sided hamstring curls, stretch right QL and stretch right rectus femoris because the right side of my pelvis was "jacked up". Idea was to use the hamstring to pull it back down. Mean while I'm all rotated exactly like your descriptions and my left hamstring is obviously smaller and less developed.
I'm good with stretching the right QL and piriformis because both are usually tight in the left AIC pattern. However I wouldn't have anyone do right hamstring curls until their tests are neutral and they've built appropriate strength in the left pelvis. Otherwise you may just get pulled back into the left AIC pattern.
Does this cause the right leg to be longer???
Is this usually accompanied by lower back pain? I feel like I’m leaning to my right side and I have very bad lower right back pain…
That is very normal, yes.
Aren’t you mixing up left and right at the end around minute 9? You say it keeps you stuck to the left, in other moments you say to the right
No, I am not. It’s confusing at first. The pattern keeps you stuck over on the right side, with a torso that is in a perpetual state of leftward rotation in an attempt to stay straight. So you are on your right side and counter-rotating to the left to stay straight
So are there some specific exercises to address this?
There is an entire playlist.
Haha kinda awesome how the right BC got so tight, the left IO "flew away". Kinda like what happends right? :D
yup. The whole left side: temporal bone, ribs, pelvis, and leg, are all externally rotated and flying away..
hello sir, i have this same issue i am from india and i dont know why my left gluteus medeus muscle sometime glutemax its on fire mostly, it causes me pain in that area while doint squats and deadlift, here i went many physical therapist but they cant help me in this situation i dont know what to do plz help me more i beg u help me reponse plz thank u for making this video
Rinku, I truly wish I could help but there is nothing I can really do without seeing someone in person. All I can suggest is that you search youtube for Postural Restoration Pelvis Repositioning exercises and see if it can help you.
Neal Hallinan thank u sir
@@rinkujangra7511 bro you find any solution plz reply i am from india
I've seen all your videos, and i guess i found the reason of my lateral pelvic titl and functional scoliosis( after a long time search to find the connection between right shoulder, left rib cage and left hip pain), left Aic and right Bc, therefore i did for 2 weeks PRI exercises and from the beginning was everything good, pain got better and so on, now i have a better posture but a sciatica like pain down to my left foot and specially on left si joint between the bone and spine
im really desperate and need some help
I have this exact same issue. Right shoulder lower than left. Right chest seems smaller. Left side hip pain that feels like sciatica. Left QL pain when walking. Were you able to fix it?
@@allwynmasc1 yeah exactly im dealing with the exact same shit. im 60% better but it comes back with less intensity. i have some basic PRI exercises but not enough.
@@amih2127 thanks mate. i literally have the same issue. My left si joint and the area where the QL connects the hip is so sore and painful. Are you doing anything specifically for this?
Everything you are saying is happening on my left side?
It can happen on both sides. But if it's happening on your left, it's happening on the right, too.
@@NealHallinan thank you for your reply. I started some of the exercises. I've got some immediate relief. Thank you again. Make it a great day.
@SupremeMystique I tried planks didn't help. Try the for 4 exercise NEAL shows. Seems simple. But it helped free up my hips,shoulder and thorax. You can find the exercises on his website. Hope this helps.
So stand up straight is that the general gist of what youre saying here.
This is so confusing and extremely frustrating